Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

Coming in at 11th place in 1998, Jimi's transformation of Dylan's portentous original into electric fire and brimstone may have slipped two places, but it has lost none of its potency.

Comfortably one of the greatest cover versions in the pop canon, Hendrix's 1968 Electric Ladyland version had a protracted birth in the studio, but some of his most achingly soulful playing oozes from its grooves.